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If today’s subject was where to put today’s lead news stories, all of them belong in a “pending” file. Issues include, a congressional decision on the president's long-awaited trade agreement deal, a Supreme Court ruling regarding ObamaCare subsidies, and pundits trying to determine whether or not the president is seriously attempting to combat ISIS, despite his quietly authorizing 450 additional US troops to be sent to Iraq.

 

Although the outcomes of these issues obviously remains to be seen, what certainly can be assumed at present is that whichever side the president has taken will prove to be wrong in the long run. Six years of nothing but decision-making misjudgments on his part are absolute proofs that the odds of doing anything right are against him.

 

Which brings us to today’s updates on Bill Clinton’s wife.

 

The first item's a telling one, from Adam B. Lerner at politico.com who writes: “Hillary Clinton has planned a lavish campaign kickoff on New York City’s Roosevelt Island this Saturday, but one of the Big Apple’s Democratic heavyweights isn’t attending.

 

“Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary confirmed to POLITICO Wednesday that the New York Democrat would not attend the rally.”

 

What’s most interesting, however, is the excuse offered up by the mayor who explained that, “he’s waiting to hear her larger vision to addressing income inequality.” 

 

Considering the many huge problems currently facing the nation, the one the mayor cited as his cause for hesitation seems to be quite a small one by comparison. Yet, it indicates that there are likely other concerns he doesn’t wish to disclose at this point, if ever.   

 

And that’s critically important to Bill’s wife’s campaign because Mayor de Blasio knows her far better than most anyone else, having managed her successful U.S. Senate campaign in 2000.

 

Nonetheless. though, he’s thus far refused to endorse her, while keeping “his distance from the former secretary of state’s nascent campaign.”  Potentially making matters, at an unrelated news conference yesterday he stated, "I’ve always liked what I heard from Bernie Sanders.”

 

At the same time, Kelly Riddell writes @washingtontimes.co, that “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s efforts to provide favors to major donors to her husband’s global charity or her own political career stretch back far earlier than her tenure as America’s top diplomat, dating to the time she served as a U.S. senator and had the power to earmark federal funds and influence legislation, records show. 

 

“For instance, Mrs. Clinton introduced a bill when she was New York’s junior senator that allowed a donor to the Clinton Foundation to use tax-exempt bonds to build a shopping center in Syracuse, New York, public records show.

 

“In 2004, Robert J. Congel, an upstate New York builder, contributed $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation — one month after Mrs. Clinton, as senator, helped enact legislation that allowed Mr. Congel’s firm to use tax-free bonds to build a mega-shopping center dubbed Destiny USA in Syracuse. 

 

“About  one year later, Mrs. Clinton put an additional earmark in a highway bill for $5 million for Mr. Congel’s development project, which passed nine months after Mr. Congel donated to the Clinton Foundation. 

 

“Overall, Destiny USA, now the sixth-largest shopping mall in the U.S., received 15 government tax subsidies valued at more than $703.6 million, making the Syracuse property one of the biggest recipients of economic development dollars in the nation, according to a report released by Good Jobs First, a research center in Washington. Not all the money was paid out during Mrs. Clinton’s term as senator.”

 

In another example, “She also went to bat for Freddie Mac, working to defeat legislation that would have subjected the mortgage giant to tougher regulations before the housing bubble burst and led to a major recession. That same year, Freddie Mac donated $50,000 to $100,000 to her husband’s charity, originally called the William J. Clinton Foundation records show.”

 

While these revelation’s of questionable misuse of power on her part certainly are no surprise, and her campaign staff discounts them as simply to be expected by a presidential candidate, the voting public seems to be treating them otherwise.

 

Ms. Riddell reports that according to a a Fox News poll released last week, “Sixty-one percent of voters said it was somewhat likely that the Clintons were “selling influence to foreign contributors” who made donations to the Clinton Foundation while Mrs. Clinton served as secretary of state. 

 

Additionally, “In a CNN/ORC poll conducted this month, 57 percent of Americans said Mrs. Clinton was not honest and trustworthy, up from 49 percent in March.” 

 

So, what may be happening at present is that Bill’s wife herself may not be the only really aged one in her presidential campaign, technologically speaking. Because although her staff may not presently be concerned about the significant distrust among the public, things have changed technologically. Most certainly in the area of distributing and preserving information. Particularly on the web, where vastly growing numbers of likely voters now get their news.

 

Thus, if similar story’s about suspect honesty and trustworthiness keep cropping up, they won’t simply go away as old news like they have in the past. They will remain headlined throughout the entire campaign, stored electronically for instant recall by other contenders, significantly increasing the likelihood of doing major damage to her electability.

 

Mayor Bloomberg, are you reading this?

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios